Menu
News
All News
Dungeons & Dragons
Level Up: Advanced 5th Edition
Pathfinder
Starfinder
Warhammer
2d20 System
Year Zero Engine
Industry News
Reviews
Dragon Reflections
Columns
Weekly Digests
Weekly News Digest
Freebies, Sales & Bundles
RPG Print News
RPG Crowdfunding News
Game Content
ENterplanetary DimENsions
Mythological Figures
Opinion
Worlds of Design
Peregrine's Next
RPG Evolution
Other Columns
From the Freelancing Frontline
Monster ENcyclopedia
WotC/TSR Alumni Look Back
4 Hours w/RSD (Ryan Dancey)
The Road to 3E (Jonathan Tweet)
Greenwood's Realms (Ed Greenwood)
Drawmij's TSR (Jim Ward)
Community
Forums & Topics
Forum List
Latest Posts
Forum list
*Dungeons & Dragons
Level Up: Advanced 5th Edition
D&D Older Editions
*TTRPGs General
*Pathfinder & Starfinder
EN Publishing
*Geek Talk & Media
Search forums
Chat/Discord
Resources
Wiki
Pages
Latest activity
Media
New media
New comments
Search media
Downloads
Latest reviews
Search resources
EN Publishing
Store
EN5ider
Adventures in ZEITGEIST
Awfully Cheerful Engine
What's OLD is NEW
Judge Dredd & The Worlds Of 2000AD
War of the Burning Sky
Level Up: Advanced 5E
Events & Releases
Upcoming Events
Private Events
Featured Events
Socials!
Twitch
YouTube
Facebook (EN Publishing)
Facebook (EN World)
Twitter
Instagram
TikTok
Podcast
Features
Top 5 RPGs Compiled Charts 2004-Present
Adventure Game Industry Market Research Summary (RPGs) V1.0
Ryan Dancey: Acquiring TSR
Q&A With Gary Gygax
D&D Rules FAQs
TSR, WotC, & Paizo: A Comparative History
D&D Pronunciation Guide
Million Dollar TTRPG Kickstarters
Tabletop RPG Podcast Hall of Fame
Eric Noah's Unofficial D&D 3rd Edition News
D&D in the Mainstream
D&D & RPG History
About Morrus
Log in
Register
What's new
Search
Search
Search titles only
By:
Forums & Topics
Forum List
Latest Posts
Forum list
*Dungeons & Dragons
Level Up: Advanced 5th Edition
D&D Older Editions
*TTRPGs General
*Pathfinder & Starfinder
EN Publishing
*Geek Talk & Media
Search forums
Chat/Discord
Menu
Log in
Register
Install the app
Install
The
VOIDRUNNER'S CODEX
is coming! Explore new worlds, fight oppressive empires, fend off fearsome aliens, and wield deadly psionics with this comprehensive boxed set expansion for 5E and A5E!
Community
General Tabletop Discussion
*Pathfinder & Starfinder
Riddles? Secret doors? Treasure? ...Anyone?
JavaScript is disabled. For a better experience, please enable JavaScript in your browser before proceeding.
You are using an out of date browser. It may not display this or other websites correctly.
You should upgrade or use an
alternative browser
.
Reply to thread
Message
<blockquote data-quote="Li Shenron" data-source="post: 6132649" data-attributes="member: 1465"><p>I had two great riddles, but now I'm not sure I remember the 2nd correctly...</p><p></p><p>The first one is a mod on a classic: you have a scale and 12 coins, one of which is fake (weights differently from the others), and you only have 3 chances of weighting two groups of coins against each other. If you know that the fake is heavier (or lighter, it's the same), then the riddle is a piece of piss. If you <em>don't</em> know it, then it's challenging! But believe me, it <em>can </em>be solved. It took me half an hour or an hour or so to find the solution back then however, so my suggestion is not to throw this riddle in the middle of the session, but rather at the end of it (or tell the players they can come back later to solve it) so that the players can think about it before next session.</p><p></p><p>The second one... I barely remember it now, so this might be wrong... There are 5 pirates (or whatever you want) who have a treasure of 1000gp to split among them. They are all greedy first and bloodthirsty second (you can explain what this means or let the players figure out, but the meaning is that each of them will always make a choice that makes him earn more coins, and failing that (or if the money outcome is the same) they will always prefer seeing another pirate die rather than not). Of course they are also all clever and don't want to die. The five pirates have rolled some (real) dice to decide in which order to proceed, so the 1st pirate has to make a proposal on how to split the money, then everybody will vote, if the majority is in favor the deal is done, if the majority is against it, the 1st pirate is thrown to the sharks, and the ball goes to the 2nd pirate, and so on. What is the best proposal the 1st pirate should make? (you can link this riddle to the in-game scene by for instance having 5 dishes or boxes with counterweights, and the PCs have to put the right number of pebbles on them to unlock the mechanism... optionally a wrong answer may unlock a trap).</p><p></p><p>Edit: forgot to say that in the pirates riddle, in case of a tie e.g. 2 in favor / 2 against, the proposal is rejected (also IIRC, there might be 2 equivalent solutions)</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Li Shenron, post: 6132649, member: 1465"] I had two great riddles, but now I'm not sure I remember the 2nd correctly... The first one is a mod on a classic: you have a scale and 12 coins, one of which is fake (weights differently from the others), and you only have 3 chances of weighting two groups of coins against each other. If you know that the fake is heavier (or lighter, it's the same), then the riddle is a piece of piss. If you [I]don't[/I] know it, then it's challenging! But believe me, it [I]can [/I]be solved. It took me half an hour or an hour or so to find the solution back then however, so my suggestion is not to throw this riddle in the middle of the session, but rather at the end of it (or tell the players they can come back later to solve it) so that the players can think about it before next session. The second one... I barely remember it now, so this might be wrong... There are 5 pirates (or whatever you want) who have a treasure of 1000gp to split among them. They are all greedy first and bloodthirsty second (you can explain what this means or let the players figure out, but the meaning is that each of them will always make a choice that makes him earn more coins, and failing that (or if the money outcome is the same) they will always prefer seeing another pirate die rather than not). Of course they are also all clever and don't want to die. The five pirates have rolled some (real) dice to decide in which order to proceed, so the 1st pirate has to make a proposal on how to split the money, then everybody will vote, if the majority is in favor the deal is done, if the majority is against it, the 1st pirate is thrown to the sharks, and the ball goes to the 2nd pirate, and so on. What is the best proposal the 1st pirate should make? (you can link this riddle to the in-game scene by for instance having 5 dishes or boxes with counterweights, and the PCs have to put the right number of pebbles on them to unlock the mechanism... optionally a wrong answer may unlock a trap). Edit: forgot to say that in the pirates riddle, in case of a tie e.g. 2 in favor / 2 against, the proposal is rejected (also IIRC, there might be 2 equivalent solutions) [/QUOTE]
Insert quotes…
Verification
Post reply
Community
General Tabletop Discussion
*Pathfinder & Starfinder
Riddles? Secret doors? Treasure? ...Anyone?
Top